Recently published research has found that Catholics gained more than Protestants from the Good Friday Agreement.

The study by Queen's University, Belfast showed that the minority community have flourished compared to their Protestant compatriots.

The study, led by Professor Richard English, showed that many members of the Catholic community made "significant inroads into the workforce", and are now more likely to have a degree than Protestants, and less likely to leave school without qualifications.

Catholic Communities are also reducing child poverty faster than Protestants.

According to Professor English, the Catholic middle class faired the best from the Belfast Agreement, both socially and economically.

He said: "There is a significant breakdown in terms of the ways in which different sections of both communities have intersected with the changing, new Northern Ireland.

"Broadly speaking, in terms of educational and employment opportunities, the less advantaged groups within the Protestant community have tended to do far less well than their equivalent group within the Catholic community.

"So in that sense, while you can't talk starkly about winners and losers in the last decade in Northern Ireland, what you can do is point to a community on the Catholic side which has more uniformly enjoyed the benefits of the changes than has been the case on the Protestant side of the divide."

(DW)